Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Go phish: A smart fish tank let hackers into a casino

A hacker managed to use a smart fish tank to gain access to a casino, according to a report from a security firm. According to CNN, the fish tank was used as a point of entry, allowing the intruders to move laterally through the network. They managed to use the tank to send data to Finland before security firm Darktrace shut them down. The casino with the fish tank goes unnamed, though it might have been alluded to in an interview Darktrace’s co-founder Dave Palmer gave earlier this year: We’ve seen insiders sneak data out of heavily-protected organizations by attacking…